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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



[Jan., 



TABLE — Showing Number of Horses, with their Records. 



Let us now return to the subject of the best records, with the 

 table before us : Lady Suffolk began the 2.30 list in 1843 (over 

 1,400 have since dropped into that class), and the next year low- 

 ered the record to 2.26|. It took eight years to better that, but 

 in the thirty years that have elapsed since that record was low- 

 ered some 600 or 700 have done better, and many thousand heats 

 have been trotted in less time. It has often been made with 

 teams on the highway. 



Then Tacony came and twice lowered the record, but he never 



